VIDEO EXCLUSIVE: What do Americans really think about the UK, Brexit, and the EU?

“If you’re for individual freedom and sovereignty you’ll be anti-EU,” says US group spokesperson

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Topics range from the EU, to Truss, to Biden, to trade, to NI Protocol, to Putin, to Trump, to Covid, to cost of living

In an exclusive video interview for Facts4EU and CIBUK, we provide readers and viewers with a fascinating US perspective on current issues, from an entertaining and knowledgeable American.

Facts4EU.Org and our affiliated organisation CIBUK are delighted to present an exclusive 30 minute video interview with Sarah Elliot, spokesperson for (and former Chair of) Republicans Overseas UK - a political organisation representing US Republicans living in the United Kingdom.

In a wide-ranging interview Ms Elliott provides a fascinating insight into mainstream Republican thinking on a variety of issues from the death of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, to Brexit and the European Union, and to Liz Truss and the political developments in the UK and across the pond.

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Video interview - Republicans Overseas UK - Sarah Elliott

Here are just some of the highlights

On the late HM Queen Elizabeth II

“She’s been the Western World’s Grandmother, exemplifying those time-honoured traits of God, Family & Country- in that order.”

On Brexit and the EU

“If you are for individual freedom and sovereignty and you want more subsidiarity and federalism much like the United States, you will be anti-EU.”

Republicans have respect and support for Brexit’s principles: independence, sovereignty & freedom.
The foundation stones of the US Republic itself.
US citizens don’t really understand EU’s political structures – courts and Schengen.
Republicans do understand the principle of not ceding sovereignty

On Europe

Americans like its diversity – it’s culture, food, languages, customs, its local and national traditions
They do not want EU-style homogeneity

The Biden Administration

He’s a pro-EU, big government liberal
Favours the single point of contact: ‘Who do I call in Europe?’

On Liz Truss

“I didn't think she should have U-turned. I think you have to dig your heels in, you have to fight for it.”

“Maybe could she have done it in a better way? Clearly. But I would have liked to have seen her stick to her guns. I know she's a real free-marketeer. I've worked with her on a US trip, and she wanted to meet with free-market economists, and she wanted to understand how the US was reviving their Rust Belt cities, you know, much like the North of England here.”

Free Trade Deal with the USA?

There is no sign of a heads of agreement between the two countries
On this side of the Atlantic she perceives a similar obstruction by our own Civil Service
The future appears to be free trade deals with individual states, by-passing the federal government
US/UK relations have always supported freedom of trade between the two nations to each other’s mutual benefit

Northern Ireland

A perception that the US administration does not fully understand the implications especially from the UK’s point of view
Biden administration inclined to take the EU/Irish perspective

Putin & Ukraine

For many Americans, “There are too many domestic fires to put out.”

“If Donald Trump had been President there would not be a war in Ukraine.”

Some Republicans are doubtful about the war with Russia
The US has had its fingers burned too many times in recent years: $ billions spent in Iraq and Afghanistan culminating in a humiliating withdrawal
Reluctant to fully engage with Putin in this one
They have more pressing domestic concerns
A perception abroad of US/Western weakness

Future of US Politics – Who will win in November’s elections and who will be the next President?

1. Democrats:-

Biden most likely to serve out his term
Gavin Newsome his likely successor. A candidate of the coastal states, big-tech/Ivy League establishment, with little or no support across the mid-West

2. Republicans:-

More than a 50% chance that Donald Trump will run
Sarah Elliott is not convinced he can win
Ron de Santis is the leading candidate
Solid track record as Governor of Florida
Kept the state running during Covid – no authoritarian-style lockdowns
Protecting parents and children in gender wars
Maintaining vigilant ‘war on woke.’
Responded well to Hurricane Ian

3. Mid-Terms Prediction :-

“The number one voting issue for Americans is inflation and pocketbook issues”

Republicans will take the House
Democrats will take the Senate
Presidency 2024 : Republicans to re-take White House

Observations

Facts4EU and CIBUK are grateful to Republicans Overseas UK and to Ms Elliott for giving up her time to provide an insight for our British and international audience into US Republican thinking on such a broad range of issues.

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Reader Comments 8

1. Dorset Patriot , Tuesday, October 18, 2022, 18:18:

It is now 7pm amd 'No comments yet' - I am surprised.
I watched it on youtube this morning.
I thought Sarah was fantastic to listen to, optimistic and (from my limited political and business knowledge) I couldn't really disagree with any of it.
Nothing in the media can be relied upon 100% ... however honesty and sincerity do shine through sometimes.
I might be wrong but I very much doubt it.
Well worth watching. I enjoyed it.

2. ste , Tuesday, October 18, 2022, 18:40:

it appears that parliament has now become the stooges of the globalists ( as if we hadn't guessed already ), just like the mafia were running large parts of the USA the ' politicians' are in the pay of EVIL. , even if that EVIL is Greed !!
It is better you accept some questions may never be answered, than to accept some 'answers' that may never be questioned !

3. Dorset Patriot , Tuesday, October 18, 2022, 19:35:

ste . . . Sadly it is true (twas always so?) what you said.
“I would rather have questions that can't be answered than answers that can't be questioned.”
― Richard Feynman
Oh no not Quantum Theory! (nobel prizes, einstein, nukes etc etc)

4. Sparky , Thursday, October 20, 2022, 00:08:

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5. Time at the Trough , Thursday, October 20, 2022, 21:01:

Well then, the title ought to have been "what does one US immigrant Republican really feel about the UK, Brexit, and the EU?"
I'd be impressed if you had 2 of them: but I'd imagine it'd be difficult to find 2 Republicans that think on a range of topics
It is fortunate then that they're all pretty much of the same opinion - How One Vote, We All Vote
at least you only needed one to understand the herd
I tried some "understanding" but this was about as much as I could decipher:
On Europe:
Republicans support the voluntary dismantling of a potential future superpower
-The foundation stones of the US spans volumes - I'd get it if you were unaware, but to distill it down to 'individual freedom',
when they had to brutally end it for the natives is taking brevity too far. Individual interest - maybe.
- Most "US citizens don’t really understand" ... much
"- Republicans DO understand the principle of not" conceding an electoral loss. The one thing they understand without equivocation.
David Frum said it better If Conservatives become convinced that they cannot win democratically, they will not abandon conservatism. The will reject democracy.”

6. Time at the Trough , Thursday, October 20, 2022, 21:45:

cntd:
-On the Truss Issues - where to begin?
The only thing worth fighting for is an education - I can't stress that enough.
This advice of defying reality would have left you all with no pensions. Yet I'm certain you'll all still vote Tory again.
The advice Liz & the Tories get from the US, apart from the culture war sideshow, is this old nugget
"You bet I cut the taxes at the top! That encourages entrepreneurship. What we Republicans should stand for is growth in the economy. We ought to make the pie higher." - G.W Bush .... the pie bigger would be nice but 'higher' & with no ladder is more likely what he really meant.
Note how "growth" is casually tied to cutting taxes - with no evidence.
Liz can't stop saying "growth" - in the conservative mind, "growth" equates to cutting taxes for the rich & sticking it to the poor.
-America likes Europe's diversity - just not it's own.
-Free Trade Deal with the USA? Obama settled this but no one believed him. So you waited for a "true-born Conservative" but Trump only cosies up to authoritarians. While he appreciated the flattery of a mini-me with global aspirations replicating his every move, but superpowers gotta superpower - ya know?
-She has yoda-like powers to perceive the intent of an entire civil workforce, as an immigrant. Ask her if the Tories will win the next election. We all know the answer, but ask anyway.
"-The future appears to be free" of a US FTA.
On N.I.
It would be preferable if many of you remember/discover that the US is a guarantor of the GFA. They are guaranteeing that the hasty over-reach of Brexiteers does not disturb the peace. With so much incompetence in this space, the US is obligated to act as an adult.
-" US/UK relations have always supported freedom of trade" except when a FTA does not suit the US, got it yet?

7. Time! at the Trough , Thursday, October 20, 2022, 21:51:

Putin & Ukraine:
-“There are too many domestic fires to put out.” plus, the Republicans are glowing inside & out from the warmth.
“If Donald Trump had been President there would not be a war in Ukraine.” Why bust the door when you got a man on the inside with keys?
The moment Trump lost the keys, the invasion happened.
-"The US has had its fingers" in other people's pots. Why were they even in Iraq again? Oh yes, to displace millions of refugees into Europe so they could get to
the resources from beneath their feet.
-Republicans are not reluctant to engage Putin, they'd marry him if they could & they have an insurrection to progress from rehearsal to production phase.
-"A perception abroad of US/Western weakness" Why is that suddenly? Not due to abandoning allies against an adversary who did not have a single airplane, pilot or air force ... worn themselves down after years of destruction but finding no WMD - no?
or how about the deliberate dilution of a union of nations ?
About the Future of US politics:
The aforementioned quote from David Frum's "Trumpocracy" reads
“Maybe you do not care much about the future of the Republican Party. You should. Conservatives will always be with us." then he goes on to warn that at any future time, they will be ready to abandon democracy, as they already have. Basically, this is like Game Of Thrones. - Russian hordes gather at the Ukrainian wall during winter & the world needs the US Democrats to win if Ukraine then eventually everyone else is not to be over-run.
We can't hope for US conservatives fighting against one whose principles highly resemble their own.

8. Buster , Friday, October 21, 2022, 16:14:

Another dimwitted Yank who doesn’t have the first clue what she is talking about.
By the definitions of you Brexit clowns the most ‘sovereign’ countries on Earth are the ones that take the most decisions free from any constraints of international norms or rules.
These countries would be North Korea, Venezuela, Iran, Syria, Russia, China. Basically all the places you wouldn’t want to live.
Sharing rules on things like cheese production to facilitate trade doesn’t make you any less sovereign - which appears hard for Brexit dimwits to understand.

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